it's sarah palin cohosting the "today" show. and she was there performing a medley of her greatest hits from "i don't read newspapers" to "i write on my hand." (laughter) to that old chestnut "i pass i aggressively hate matt lauer with every ounce of my being." >> how's it going so far governor? >> thanks for letting me crash your dressing room and now that i have your hair product... (laughter). >> technically i didn't give you permission to be in there. (laughter) >> jon: seriously. i'm not being light hearted about this. i do not give you permission to go in there. obviously that was just a little bit of scripted banter based on the fact that matt lauer no longer needs a hair brush. kind of a funny... unless... oh! (audience reacts) dear god! how did we get that image? matt lauer hopefully having sex with a badger. good for you, matt, kicking it old school. cancel lauer's invitation to pool party. (laughter) drains can't handle. (laughter) here's the thing-- thank god we got that picture. the former alaska governor was actual

sarah palin is incredibly -- if you have a new show, you don't want sarah palin on there. don't forget, this is -- let's get a new news woman on there. >> wow. >> i can't -- i couldn't disagree more. >> go ahead. >> i couldn't disagree more. are you actually trying to argue that the "today" show should try to protect its journalistic brand in the era of fox news and msnbc? >> yes, sharon, i would. yeah. >> absolutely. okay. we lost that -- the ora of that journalistic credibility back when mike wallace used to -- was in his heyday, honestly. the news is not about journalistic purity anymore, and the "today" show really is not the showcase for great journalism. let's be honest. >> all right. >> i have a piece on the morning show wars coming out in newsweek tomorrow, and i talk to former today show bryant gumble who said he was embarrassed to see sarah palin on his former program. i do have to say katie spent the week, you know, at "gma" as we all noted to help gma and the ratings. it was a reminder that she's really, really good, and the other big news is that even though t

he writes -- i like "the today show" but i do not like sarah palin. most people do not know why they do not like sarah palin. she started off hosting. this makes sense. >> now, the 11 sports. with keep mills. >> good morning. we begin with college basketball. the programs have combined for 10 n.c.a.a. championships. women's will play tomorrow night. britain with a huge game last night as the irish beat connecticut. -- brittany with a huge game last night as the irish beat connecticut. the scene near -- the senior, she squares up, knocks down the three. at notre dame. a few minutes later, takes it out. brittany squares up, and knocks it down again. notre dame with 83-75. they are 39-0. opening day for the orioles is friday. tonight and tomorrow against college teams in florida. did the north played the aaa team on wednesday. good game against the blue jays. battling a sore shoulder -- not here. two home runs. he is ready for opening day. he has won here to make it 2-1. he had not won, not to, but three home runs yesterday. -- not one, not two, but thre

i think sarah palin answers that question. when she comes on and gets the co-host of "today" or her own reality show there are benefits from running to president than perhaps winning the presidency. >> you're saying in the future we will see a whole lot more people using our election process to get themselves a show? >> it's a shocker, isn't it? >> it's just sad to me! isn't it sad, lz? if it's true, it's sad. >> it's sad but, i mean, we treat the election process like a reality game show any way so why not let the contestants be contestants instead of candidate. what is hilarious to me about herman cain he runs and says all of these horrible and divisive things and he drops out and he starts singing on the stage with stephen colbert. like no harm, no foul. i'm just like, dude! did you take any of this seriously at all? >> i just remember back when barack obama was running and there was actually a campaign ad that came out accusing him of being a rock star and that was a bad thing during 2008. and, somehow, it's an okay thing

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palin. >> it is a pleasure to welcome the former alaska governor sarah palin to our show this morning. [ laughter ] >> oh, man, she is doing her homework. [ laughter ] >> that's my dressing room now her dressing room. she is taking notes, getting ready for upcoming segments. >> thanks for allowing me to crash your dressing room now that i have your hair product. [ laughter ] >> you know, you need hair product. >> technically i didn't give you permission to be in there by the way either. >> getting up this early was a lot harder than i remembered. [alarm clock] ♪ ♪ i'm sexy and i know it ♪ >> hello? what? that's today? ah! ♪ wake me up, before you go go ♪ because i'm not planning on going solo. >> okay, guys, i'm ready. >> bill: is there actually any news? here is huddy by the way. does news happen on those shows at all. >> no. >> bill: who won the ratings. >> sarah palin won the ratings. i don't think that was a big surprise. katie couric is not the biggest ratings grabber. couric coming back and making a big splash to the morning television wasn't that big of deal. >> bill:

the running mate will get judged against sarah palin. the question, is it for a day, a week or a month, this whole cloud that she leaves over the process. >> right. >> absolutely. >> if you put sarah palin, and i said this earlier today, if you put her in a program computer and said give me the exact opposite of sarah palin, you would get rob portman. >> let's take a other options. jeb bush might be popular with conservatives. but george will spend this weekend, the issue with the bush brothers. let's take a watch. >> if jeb bush is to be romney's running mate, it would mean that in seven of nine presidential elections, there would be a bush on the republican ticket. and it gets hard to argue that we're not a tribal society at that point. >> what do you think of that? chuck, just too many -- another problem for jeb who i like is he would have to defend his brother's administration. and he'd be like a voodoo doll. anytime you said anything against w, he would have to defend him. >> i think it's a little bit of a negative for portman by th

the running mate will get judged against sarah palin. the question, is it for a day, a week or a month, this whole cloud that she leaves over the process. >> absolutely. >> if you put sarah palin, and i said this earlier today, if you put her in a program computer and said give me the exact opposite of sarah palipalin, yo would get rob portman. >> let's take a other options. jeb bush might be popular with conservatives. but george will spend this weekend, the issue with the bush brothers. let's take a watch. >> if jeb bush is to be romney's running mate, it would mean that in seven of nine presidential elections, there would be a bush on the republican ticket. and it gets hard to argue that we're not a tribal society at that point. >> what do you think of that? chuck, just too many -- another problem for jeb who i like is he would have to defend his brother's administration. and he'd be like a voodoo doll. anytime you said anything against w, he would have to depend him. >> i think it's a little bit of a negative for portman by the way i

. >> you have to know that when sarah palin came and endorsed. at the time i didn't realize what she said. and it's so telling to me. after we talked shoes and politics and family and everything especially. she said when you start to get momentum, they will start to come after you. and when you run for governor, it will never stop. and i realize that she was so right. i got a phone call from sarah and she said two questions, she said is it -- are you okay? and is it true? i said yes, i'm true, and no its not. she said then let's fight. >> governor romney said the same thing, theyed a a meeting the next day, it was very thoughtful and he came out and supported me. we have two people that have totally different methods. >> palin is more of a gut players. >> yes, yes. and governor romney was more thoughtful, how can we do this in a way that -- >> more careful, more cautious. let me ask you, are you in this race? is romney the nominee? >> what i do think is whether you look at ron paul, gingrich, or senator santorum, they're tired, they have gone thr

what does he say would have helped sarah palin? >> if you are going to select somebody fairly new, that person should be selected fairly early. if you remember, by the time sarah palin got to the debate, she was a heck of a good candidate. if she had had three months to prepare, you would have seen sarah palin of today. >> she would have won the debate. >> yeah and that took like three weeks of preparation. you do two months of preparation, what a difference. >> what an idiotic conversation that was. do you believe either side of that conversation? rudy giuliani really believes that three months of prep would have changed everything? i don't believe a word he said. i don't believe he believed it. up next, back to school. back to school. president obama goes back to college, hitting three in two days. young voters came out in record numbers four years ago, but are they as enthusiastic this time? apparently not. you're watching hardball. >>> hello, everyone, i'm lynn berry, here's what's happening. mitt romney swept primaries in all

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palin. >> it is a pleasure to welcome the former alaska governor sarah palin to our show this morning. [ laughter ] >> oh, man, she is doing her homework. [ laughter ] >> that's my dressing room now her dressing room. she is taking notes, getting ready for upcoming segments. >> thanks for allowing me to crash your dressing room now that i have your hair product. [ laughter ] >> you know, you need hair product. >> technically i didn't give you permission to be in there by the way either. >> getting up this early was a lot harder than i remembered. [alarm clock] ♪ ♪ i'm sexy and i know it ♪ >> hello? what? that's today? ah! ♪ wake me up, before you go go ♪ because i'm not planning on going solo. >> okay, guys, i'm ready. >> bill: is there actually any news? here is huddy by the way. does news happen on those shows at all. >> no. >> bill: who won the ratings. >> sarah palin won the ratings. i don't think that was a big surprise. katie couric is not the biggest ratings grabber. couric coming back and making a big splash to the morning television wasn't that big of deal. >> bill:

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palin now jumping into the mix, i mean, listening to sarah palin dispense v.p. advice is like going to michael jackson's doctor for medical advice. i agree that rubio is probably the front-runner. i think the choice of rubio is a better way to cross racial lines for rick santorum in i than, say, singing who let the dogs out. i think hayley is a better way of reaching out to women than by saying rush limbaugh used the wrong word or he would have used a different word other than slut to describe sandra fluke, and the real story is a lot of these folks aren't really that interested in being the v.p. candidate. people remember bob dole, lieberman, and being a v.p. candidate for a guy that everyone thinks is going to lose is not a good career move. >> onto julian's point, south carolina governor nikki haley endorsed mitt romney and she says she would not accept a spot on the ticket tuesday on the view. she may have inadvertently explained why with this remark. take a listen. >> women don't care about contraception. they care about jobs and the economy and raising the

has a right to make a comment about sarah palin. unless you know her? she was running for vice president. >> yeah, i think we have plenty of right to make a comment about her. >> we don't have a comment to make a comment about a public figure unless we know them. >> i was home sick tonight, and i am -- this is the first time i ever saw your show and you guys are cracking me up. okay. good. what do you think of sarah palin. >> i think she's wonderful. >> oh. >> what was that? >> nothing. nothing. why? >> because she is. she got a bad rap. >> in what way did she get a bad rap? >> they let her talk. >> oh wow. [ laughter ] >> you are just freaking her up there in kodiak. >> yeah, that's cold-hearted. >> not really. >> i think most people judged her to be not qualified vice president or president. you disagree? >> oh, yeah. absolutely. >> you find her well-spoken. >> yeah. >> oh, dear. >> really? all right. >> i think you are kind of hopped up on cold medicine aren't ya? [ laughter ] >> all right. >> you are cracking her up. [ applause

>> juan: i think sarah palin is bailing out nbc. i mean, gosh, everybody, around here, thinks they're lefty crazy people. sarah palin going over there and is going to bring a lot of her conservative moderates with her. she will get them in the papers in a moment when otherwise the papers would be filled with all the talk about katie couric, because katie couric is the one who actually built up the "today" show and now she bailed out and is on the other team at abc. >> eric: that is the big thing. >> kimberly: the rub. advantage, "today" show and palin. smart move. it will be great tv. why not? >> dana: when you see the clip from "good morning america" it's like -- there is nothing new. what is the next thing? it could be sarah palin. >> kimberly: she belongs to us so again fox will be number one. sorry. >> eric: one more thing is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: i love neil diamond. time for one more thing. juan? >> juan: it's unbelievable. it's been announced by will ferrell who said it's official. there is going to be a seque

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